Day after thunderstorm, dry and sunny morning in Mumbai

Mumbai has been put on the orange category alert on Sunday and Monday, indicating “heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places”, along with chances of extremely heavy rainfall (over 204.5mm in 24 hours) in some parts.

Moderate rain was expected in Mumbai and its suburbs with possibility of heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places on Saturday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said. The city on Friday experienced a thunderstorm and recorded 253 mm of rain in just a few hours. The heavy rain on Friday morning left parts the city and suburbs waterlogged. The weather on Saturday morning was drier and sunnier.

Mumbai, India -The monsoon in the city is expected to remain active between July 17 and 22. (Hindustan Times)

IMD’s monitoring station in Mumbai’s Santacruz recorded just 31 mm of rain in the 24 hours that ended on 8:30 am Saturday. Of this, 16 mm was recorded after Friday evening.

Mumbai has been put on the orange category alert on Sunday and Monday, indicating “heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places”, along with chances of extremely heavy rainfall (over 204.5mm in 24 hours) in some parts.

The monsoon in the city is expected to remain active between July 17 and 22.

The city has so far received 1,576 mm rain, or about 70% of the seasonal long period average (up to September end). In the last week, the city recorded 466 mm of rainfall.